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The correct solution is just giving people the option to charge people for phoning them. Say minimum wage is 12euro/hour, and declining a call takes about a mi
by amoshebb 2mo ago
The correct solution is just giving people the option to charge people for phoning them.
Say minimum wage is 12euro/hour, and declining a call takes about a minute of your attention, so this is worth at least 20cent.
Instead of just "Answer" and "Hang-Up", there should be a gov't enforced "charge caller 20cent" option.
This would have no impact on 'real' calls, nobody would charge their Mother and if someone is tacky enough to charge their GP or mechanic they could just be billed for it, and it would hardly be worth someone's trouble to try to steal a phone to call themselves to collect 20c, but it would totally ruin the economics of these spam calls.
The same should exist for emails.
- grouchomarx 2mo agoimpressively convoluted. Spam calls are coming from all over the world using voip and prepaid sims. There aren't any accounts to "bill". Not to mention a whole new arena for fraud in spoofing regular numbers for micropayments
- tandr 2mo agoTo end up on your phone, VOIP have to terminate somewhere in local phone network. These networks need to stop accepting calls from shady places, or every call like this that they cannot charge back to original (or intermediary network) becomes a loss to them. And telecom companies do not like losses...
- IncreasePosts 2mo agoThere a story, perhaps apochraphal, from 15 years ago of a man setting up a premium rate line and getting paid whenever telemarketers called him. I believe the phone service said anyone doing that would be fined because you need to inform potential callers it's a premium rate number